Killing Bernie Madoff

There's no doubt that Bernie Madoff's
alleged crimes have made him the villian of the moment. We'd like
to think we take second to no one when it comes to outrage at the
destruction of wealth perpetrated by Madoff. But we'd be wrong
for the simple fact that we're not murderously mad at Madoff yet.
And murder is what a lot of people have on their mind.

Take the excample of Howard Sirota, a New York securities lawyer
who had clashed with Madoff over a decade ago and now wants to
kill him.
From Bloomberg:

In 1994, Sirota defended a broker-dealer in a National
Association of Securities Dealers disciplinary proceeding led by
Madoff, who interrupted him repeatedly, according to the lawyer.
When Sirota alluded to the Holocaust to make a point, saying his
client shouldn’t “be marched naked in the snow to the ovens,”
Madoff accused Sirota of making light of Hitler’s genocide, the
lawyer said.

“This sanctimonious hypocrite who lectured me about trivializing
the Holocaust cheated numerous Jewish charities, including small
ones that can’t survive,” Sirota said in an interview. “I’d love
to put a hatchet in Bernie Madoff’s head, and I know there are
other Jews who feel that way.”

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